#theres just more variety and complexity and nuance when compared to human understandings of family

[favouritefi]

In your Purror and Terrebark au, could a human in theory basically baby trap a catboy/dogboy (being gender neutral in this case I guess) They don't technically own by just having too-humanoid children with them and owning them after that? (I thought of how I could do this with Little before wondering if that'd actually fit with the worldbuilding)

it took me a while to parse this sentence but once i did i CACKLEDDDD im sorry to say that ur babytrapping dreams would unfortunately fail because likely what would happen is that little would be put down for creating "ungodly" interspecies spawn, rip. even if little were to knock up another catperson he would likely still belong to crozier since its not a guarantee that the father of the cat/dogkids is involved in their lives. these arrangements aren't always about love, sometimes it's like "your parents found a match for you that your owners approve of and if you impregnate this stranger they will get off your back and you can continue living your life" and thats considered normal. even in cases where you love the other cat/dogperson, your relationship to your human still triumphs so if they dont wanna transfer your adoption status to the human who owns your partner then its within their rights to deny you. it would be cruel of them, but legally gucci. in croziers case he would be perfectly fine transferring littles adoption status to someone else if little asked him to, but little would never ask this of him and would probably cry if crozier ever suggested it

#purror and erebark #it might help to think of cat/dogboy family structures #as structures that exist within but are separate from #human family structures #nuclear family dynamics are simply not a thing that exists for them #you could have siblings youve never met before #and cousins who you grew up with like siblings #you could call someone a littermate and they might not be genetically related to you at all #you couldve been raised by your bio aunts and called both of them mom #theres just more variety and complexity and nuance when compared to human understandings of family #hodgson for example can name about 200 “close” family members #crozier gets a headache just imagining it